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This is a truly interdisciplinary episode. Pressor Susan Blum (Notre Dame) is an anthropologist, a cultural, linguistical,  anthropologist. We talk about the intersections between linguistics, politics, legislation, food, semiotics, literary theory, pedagogy, as well as such icons as Saussure and CS Pierce. In other other words, this is a truly teleological episode, one that will teach you why and how linguistics applies to other disciplines and to the world around us. Listen, go read Professor Blum's books and articles, and then check out some of the resources below! 

Courtney Cazden

Elise Berman 

The Early Catastrophe by Hart and Risley

The Semiotic Perspectives of Peirce and Saussure: A Brief Comparative Study

Twenty Years after “Meaningful Differences,” It's Time to Reframe the “Deficit” Debate about the Importance of Children's Early Language Experience

 What is Semiotics? Ferdinand de Saussure’s Linguistic Revolution

Peirce’s Theory of Signs

Selling the Language Gap  

Chinese language and social justice

Tasty Talk, Expressive Food: An Introduction to The Semiotics of Food-and-Language